Month: December 2017

The federal judge overseeing the case of Texas landowners and others against the Bureau of Land Management made a mixed ruling Sunday that grants access to land by the federal agency, but with restrictions. Judge Rules on Red River Access…

Over the past five weeks, more than a dozen animals in the region have been killed or injured, and nearly three dozen others have been reported missing. The incidents are near the site where people have gathered to protest the…

Scenes involving large illegal marijuana grows on public and private lands and in gutted-out homes are playing out across Colorado and more frequently on the Western Slope. People have been growing marijuana illegally in Colorado for decades, but law enforcement…

The meetings are only the latest effort at outreach to ranchers by the Wolf Center, which has set up a range rider program with volunteers to help livestock producers determine if there are wolves in the area. YREKA, Calif. —…

In an open letter to President Obama, who has authority to declare a new monument and has done so several times in recent months, the Owyhee Basin Stewardship Coalition said the verdict “does little to heal the wounds created in…

“I live in a no-man’s land. I live in a land that is occupied by the Sinaloa drug cartel,” he sighed, pointing to mountains on his ranch where he said scouts equipped with sophisticated equipment are posted as lookouts for…

While the inspector general's review pointed to probable scenarios outlined by the BLM's national director to reach targeted levels in three to five or 10 years, it said the agency has no formal plan in place to deal with the…

"It just blows my mind,'' Paris said. "To have a lawyer who's making an argument in court physically restrained and taken down is extraordinary. He's entitled to make these arguments. If he was repeating himself over and over, the more…

That's relevant because another federal land management agency — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — oversees the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which Bundy, his brother Ryan and five others took over last winter in a 41-day armed standoff near…

A plan to transfer the management of campgrounds, trailheads and day-use facilities throughout the national forest to Parks Management Company included price increases of up to 300 percent, according to Los Padres ForestWatch officials. Los Padres National Forest Recreation Fees Will Rise as U.S. Forest…